Indie Events October 20-26
The (FU) Drag Musical, one night only! [image via facebook] Tuesday, October 21 TORONTO Ghost Stories Zine Making […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Canzine Toronto: Art Rooms!
Each year at Canzine Toronto, in addition to our vendors and programming, we host three art rooms. These are […]
Canzine Toronto: Jess Taylor
Photo by Francesca Ludikar, from jesstaywriter.com We are pleased to bring the fiercely talented Jess Taylor on board for this […]
Volunteer for Canzine!
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Fun With Crowdfunding: Manning Canning Rental Kitchen
We at Broken Pencil don’t stop at just supporting indie lit and zines— we also love people who bring food […]
Canzine and Canzine West: Melissa Fong and Kim Katrin Milan
Our panels across all three Canzines are titled “From print to pixel: zines as political tools in the digital age.” […]
Indie Events October 13-19
YOW! launches Sunday night. [image via facebook] Tuesday, October 14 MONTREAL Live Nude Writers!, 7pm, Stock Bar, 1171 Rue […]
Canzine Toronto: Ian Rogers
This year at our Radical Reading Series at Canzine Toronto, we’re happy to welcome horror author Ian Rogers! Ian and Broken […]
Canzine (Toronto) : sem-o distro
Get to know sem-o! We first encountered sem-o distro at the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair 2014, where a table of gorgeous and […]
Fun with Crowdfunding: Patchy Squirrel Lit-Serv
The person we assume is behind the emails… [image via flickr] The Patchy Squirrel Lit-Serv is one of the best […]